To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was
at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things
as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry
thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?”
She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that
desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. . "
With these words, he strode out of the room, darted down the stone stairs, and,
on his arrival at the Lodge, seized the rope of the great bell communicating with
the interior of the prison, which he rang violently. He will let you live if it pleases him. She shattered the edifice he was building up of
himself as a devoted lover, waiting only his chance to win her from a hopeless
and consuming passion. “Now listen. My whole life shall be devoted to you,
beloved girl. ’
‘True enough,’ nodded Martha sadly. He had need of all the inexhaustible energy of his
character to support him through his toilsome walk over the wet grass, or along
the slippery ploughed land. But, as soon as he perceived who it was, he roused himself, and
glared fiercely at the intruder from under his bent brows. The perception of him flooded her being.
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